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Little Things
(Hardcover)
John R. Little; Illustrated by Luke Spooner
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R962
Discovery Miles 9 620
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Packed with 40 incredible short stories and their takeaways, 'A
Harvest of Change' will inspire you to adopt a more positive
outlook at matters, think out of the box, enhance your
self-confidence and decisiveness, work on goals, follow through,
grab opportunities, never give up, and survive the negative
influences that surround us. What's unique about this book is that
any person, 18 and above, will enjoy reading it and instantly reap
its benefits.
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Gordo
(Paperback)
Jaime Cortez
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R370
R347
Discovery Miles 3 470
Save R23 (6%)
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Shedding profound natural light on the inner lives of migrant
workers, Jaime Cortez's debut collection ushers in a new era of
American literature that gives voice to a marginalized generation
of migrant workers in the West. The first-ever collection of short
stories by Jaime Cortez, Gordo is set in a migrant workers camp
near Watsonville, California in the 1970s. A young, probably gay,
boy named Gordo puts on a wrestler's mask and throws fists with a
boy in the neighborhood, fighting his own tears as he tries to grow
into the idea of manhood so imposed on him by his father. As he
comes of age, Gordo learns about sex, watches his father's drunken
fights, and discovers even his own documented Mexican-American
parents are wary of illegal migrants. Fat Cookie, high schooler and
resident artist, uses tiny library pencils to draw huge murals of
graffiti flowers along the camp's blank walls, the words "CHICANO
POWER" boldly lettered across, until she runs away from home one
day with her mother's boyfriend, Manny, and steals her mother's
Panasonic radio for a final dance competition among the camp kids
before she disappears. And then there are Los Tigres, the perfect
pair of twins so dark they look like indios, Pepito and Manuel, who
show up at Gyrich Farms every season without fail. Los Tigres,
champion drinkers, end up assaulting each other in a drunken brawl,
until one of them is rushed to the emergency room still slumped in
an upholstered chair tied to the back of a pick-up truck. These
scenes from Steinbeck Country seen so intimately from within are
full of humor, family drama, and a sweet frankness about serious
matters - who belongs to America and how are they treated? How does
one learn decency, when laborers, grown adults, must fear for their
lives and livelihoods as they try to do everything to bring home a
paycheck? Written with balance and poise, Cortez braids together
elegant and inviting stories about life on a California camp, in
essence redefining what all-American means.
October 31st. It's been called everything from "Sowein," "Samhain,"
and "Mischief Eve" to "Devil's Night" and the "Season of the
Witch." Its most common moniker of course is "Halloween." It is
that mysterious night of the year when the veil between reality and
that of the underworld grows so thin as to allow spirits of the
dead to commune with the living. This compendium is a tribute to
the entire month. Hallow Evil is a darkly-delightful panoply of
short fiction and poetry authored by master of horror, Chris Cook.
Herein are thirty-one writings. This collection of peculiar poems,
twisted tales and oft-times humorous pieces are designed to chill
your bones on cool, fall evenings. They can be read throughout the
month of October, one piece per calendar day. Or you may devour the
book in one sitting. However you digest these entrails, make Hallow
Evil a new tradition in your home. When October's winds whistle
through skeletal trees, dust off the hideous cover and crack open
the spine like the creaky lid of a coffin in decay. Read by the
flicker of a Jack-O-Lantern. Settle in for a long night of mystery
and the macabre
Gorgeous Collector's Edition. The Myths of Ancient Egypt are tied
intimately to the presence and natural rhythms of the Nile. With
their animalistic mythology, the Egyptians explained the effects of
famine, harvest, floods and death by creating a pantheon of gods
that still holds our fascination today. This new book of classic
tales brings the stories of the ancients to life, from the birth of
creation by Ra, the sun god, to the murder of Osiris, and the
revenge of Horus. We gain glimpses of the underworld and the
afterlife, as the rulers of Egypt claimed lineage from the Gods
both worshipped and fashioned by the people of Egypt, at a time
when humankind had begun to shape the world around it, Flame Tree
Collector's Editions present the foundations of speculative
fiction, authors, myths and tales without which the imaginative
literature of the twentieth century would not exist, bringing the
best, most influential and most fascinating works into a striking
and collectable library. Each book features a new introduction and
a Glossary of Terms.
Come on a mindblowing journey. From a feast in imperial Rome whose
ripples will be felt across the ages, to a desperate space mission
that hopes to find salvation for a broken human race. From a
meeting in bleak 1930s Ireland that plots the plunder of an entire
nation, to the first-hand experience of a New Yorker during the
horror of September 11, 2001. From a lonely and confused seeker of
the Holy Grail, to a detached society that feeds its troubled
youngsters to the wolves. This thrilling collection of stunning
short fiction will force you to challenge every assumption, to
question everything, to conclude that your influence on the
development of human civilisation is as critical as anybody else's.
Ever. Human society has always been controlled and manipulated by
the few, but can the many fight back? Sometimes an idea gets into
my head and it just won't go away until I write it down. Sometimes
it becomes a novel, sometimes a tweet or a blog post, sometimes a
short story. This is my first complete collection of all the short
stories I've created since I started writing fiction in 2002. The
stories are arranged chronologically by setting, as opposed to by
when I wrote them. I want to discover if a thread, however tenuous,
unites them over the thousands of years that they span. And what is
that thread? You read. You decide. You tell me. In my opinion,
humans are easily-led, easily-manipulated, easily-fooled.
Religions, dictatorships and con artists have thrived because of
this unfortunate reality. But we're smarter than that. Will it
require a great event to shake us from our slumber or will it
require just one great person? All the stories, including those
that have been widely-read as part of 9/11 Trilogy and Ireland
Trilogy, have been improved as no story I write is ever truly
finished. Most of these stories are published here for the very
first time. I hope that they give you as much pleasure in the
reading as they gave to me in the writing. Gary J Byrnes, Epic
Fiction
Tales From The Bayou is a compilation of six short stories about
South Louisiana, dating from 1814, which was when the Battle of New
Orleans was fought, to our modern times. The purpose of the book is
to introduce Louisiana culture to those who may not be familiar
with this part of America, and to enhance the appreciation of our
heritage to local citizens of this very unique region. The book is
very special in that it tells the stories of life from a variety of
views. From little Cajun boys in the 1930's and their mischievous
antics, the lifelong story of a man of color along the shores of
Lake Pontchartrain, and of course, the personal tale about Jean
Lafitte and his fictitious offspring. The book also tells a
heartwarming story from the prospective of a 30-something woman who
is the proprietor of the Decator Street Guest House in the French
Quarter of New Orleans. It is the author's desire that all will be
entertained, and will enjoy the stories for what they are, and take
an inside look at the hopes, the dreams, the triumphs and the
failures of his characters.
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